Building AI Agents and Copilots with Confluent, Airy, and Apache Flink
Feb 20, 2025Steffen Hoellinger

Summary
This post details how Airy leverages Confluent Data Streaming Platform, Apache Flink, and AI Model Inference to build AI agents and copilots. It highlights the use of Confluent connectors for data ingestion, Flink for stream processing and data transformation, and AI Model Inference for creating embeddings and RAG. The post also mentions the use of Stream Governance for data contracts and schema management, and Tableflow for integrating with Iceberg. Key challenges addressed include data governance, accuracy of GenAI outputs, and scalable infrastructure.
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